Second Call for Papers: MICCAI 98


First International Conference on
Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston MA, USA

Tutorials, Saturday, October 10, 1998
Conference, Sunday, October 11 to Tuesday, October 13, 1998

Jointly sponsored by 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School

General Co-Chairs:

        Takeyoshi Dohi              Tokyo
      W. Eric L. Grimson          MIT
      Ron Kikinis                 Harvard Medical School 

Program Co-Chairs:    

      Alan Colchester             University of Kent & Guy's Hospital
      Scott Delp                          Northwestern University
      William Wells             Harvard Medical School
      
Executive Committee:

        Nicholas Ayache           INRIA
        Anthony DiGioia           Shadyside
        James Duncan              Yale University
        Karl-Heinz Hoehne         University of Hamburg
        Stephane Lavallee         IMAG
        Stephen Pizer             University of North Carolina
        Richard Robb              Mayo Clinic
        Russell Taylor            Johns Hopkins University

Program Committee:
 David Altobelli    James Anderson    Takehide Asano    Nicholas Ayache
 Ruzena Bajcsy      William Bargar    Andre Bauer       Dominique Blin
 Isabelle Bloch     Michel Bolla      Fred Bookstein    Michael Brady
 Peter Brett        Richard Bucholz   Grigore Burdea    Edmund Chao
 Steven Charles     Phillipe Cinquin  J.-L. Coatrieux   Alan Colchester
 Court Cutting      Jacques Darcourt  Paolo Dario       Brian Davies
 Scott Delp         Anthony Di Gioia  Takeyoshi Dohi    James Drake
 James Duncan       Alan C. Evans     Norberto Ezquerra Elliot Fishman
 M. Fitzpatrick     Thomas Fortin     Henry Fuchs       Toshi Fukuda
 Guido Gerig        Sarah Gibson      Michael Goris     Frank Gosse
 Erik Granum        Blake Hannaford   David Hawkes      William Heinrichs
 Derek Hill         Karl-Heinz Hoehne Robert Howe       Thomas Huang
 Koji Ikuta         Hiroshi Iseki     Branislav Jaramaz Chris Johnson
 Leo Joskowicz      Takeo Kanade      Arie Kaufman      Louis Kavoussi
 Peter Kazanzides   Ron Kikinis       Yong Min Kim      Andres Kriete
 Heinz Lemke        Stephane Lavallee Bill Lorensen     Robert Maciunas
 Gregoire Malandain Majrilio Marcacci Jacques Marescaux Tim McInerney
 Dwight Meglan      Philippe Merloz   Dimitris Metaxas  Brent Mittlestadt
 Ralph Moesges      Heinrich Muller   Alison Noble      Lutz Nolte
 Wieslaw Nowinski   Masahiro Ohgami   Charles Pelizzari Michael Peshkin
 Jordon Phillips    Stephen Pizer     Rob Playter       Glenn Preminger

 Jerry Prince       Klaus Radermacher Hans Reinhardt    Emile Reyt
 Richard Robb       J.-M. Rocchisani  Joseph Rosen      Jonathan Sackier
 Ichiro Sakuma      Tim Salcudean     Kenneth Salisbury Richard Satava
 Paul Schenker      Achim Schweikard  Siegfried Stiehl  David Stulberg
 Paul Suetens       Naoki Suzuki      Gabor Szekely     Mark Talamini
 Chris Taylor       Russ Taylor       Frank Tendick     Demetri
Terzopoulos
 J.-P. Thirion      A. Todd-Pokropek  J.-I. Toriwaki    Jocelyne Troccaz
 Jay Udupa          Marcel Van Herk   Michael Vannier   Alessandro Verri
 Max Viergever      Eiju Watanabe     Lee Weiss         William Wells
 James Zinreich

Purpose: The formation of MICCAI acknowledges the overlap and synergy
of the three vigorous strands of research in medically-oriented
visualization, image understanding, and robotics that is represented
by the independently successful VBC, MRCAS and CVRMED meetings.

The goal of the organizing committee is to maintain the momentum of
the previous meetings and launch an annual meeting conforming to the
highest possible standard that will bring together scientists from the
fields of medicine and engineering.  The meeting will be
organized in a single track, without parallel sessions.  The focus is
on the introduction and validation of new image computing and
image-guided interventional methodology into clinical practice.  The
emphasis will be on high quality work, whether methodological or
clinical evaluation.  The conference will continue to stress a central
theme of its predecessor conferences, in which strongly coupled
interactions between clinicians and scientists provide a common focus
for innovative development and deployment of new methods and systems.

Topics to be addressed in this conference include, but are not restricted
to:

Medical Image Computing:
- - constructing patient-specific models
- - multimodal fusion
- - virtual or augmented reality visualizations
- - image guided therapy
- - anatomical atlases
- - data registration
- - tracking and localization of patients and tools
- - clinical analysis, change detection, diagnosis
- - quantitative analysis
- - time series analysis
- - finite element modeling
- - integration of functional methods with morphology

Computer Assisted Interventional Systems:
- - medical telepresence and telesurgery
- - surgical simulators
- - therapy planning
- - medical manipulators
- - safety issues

Clinical Applications of Computer Assisted Systems:
- - clinical evaluation of systems
- - novel applications of interventional systems in surgical specialties
   (e.g. Orthopedics, Neurosurgery, ENT surgery, Radiation therapy).

Authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts for competitive
review -- abstracts will not be accepted.


Submission details:  Authors should submit 4 copies of their manuscript to


      MICCAI 1998
      c/o Eric Grimson
      MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
      545 Technology Square
      Cambridge MA 02139

Manuscripts should be 2-8 pages in length, in two column format, with
one inch (25mm) margins on the top, bottom and sides.  Authors should
use a 12 point Times typeface.  The title page should include contact
information: address, email, fax of the primary author.  It should
also include a short set of keywords to aid in directing the
manuscript to the appropriate members of the program committee.

Templates in Latex and MS Word will be avaiable from the web site (below).



Key dates:   Submission of manuscripts      March 3, 1998
             Notification of acceptance     June 9, 1998
             Receipt of camera ready copy   July 21, 1998
             Conference starts              October 10, 1998

For additional information, please consult the following web page
which will be updated on a regular basis:

              http://www.ai.mit.edu/miccai98.html

Alternatively, contact:


      MICCAI 1998
      c/o Eric Grimson
      MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
        545 Technology Square
        Cambridge MA 02139

      



Listed below are the meetings that are direct ancestors of the MICCAI
meeting.

      VBC: Visualization in Biomedical Computing
              
              Atlanta GA USA                1990
              Chapel Hill NC USA            1992
              Rochester MN USA                    1994
              Hamburg Germany         1996
              
      MRCAS: Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery
              
              Pittsburgh PA USA                   1994
              Baltimore MD USA                    1995

      CVRMED: Computer Vision, Virtual Reality and Robotics in Medicine
              
              Nice France                         1995
              
      CVRMED / MRCAS:

              Grenoble France               1997